3i6 Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 
one to each lobe of the pinna, besides the sori are differently 
situated. 
* * * Fronds compomid. 
1 8. PoLYPODiUM DARE/EFORME. {Hook.) Rhizome stout, 
creeping, clothed densely with filiform golden scales ; stipes 6-9 
inches long, articulated on the rhizome, naked, glossy ; fronds 
12-18 inches long, 8-12 inches broad, sub-deltoid, 3-4-pinnate ; 
Darea-like ; pinnae 1-2 inches broad, lanceolate deltoid ; secondary 
pinnae f inch long, tertiary pinnae small, forked or pinnate \ the 
uldmate segments narrow, almost filiform bluntish, texture herba- 
ceous, rachis glossy, both sides quite naked; veins one to each 
ultimate segment, not reaching the margin, and thickened at the 
apex, and bearing the sorus low down ; sori extending beyond the 
margins of the segments ; indusium none. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. 256, 
Syn. Fil. 339. Acrophorus Hookeri, Bedd. F B. I. 95 {not Moore, 
which is Leucostegia Hookeri.) 
Himalayas and Khasya, 4,000-5,000 feet elevation. This 
cannot belong to Phegopteris as the stipes are articulated with the 
rhizome ; it is very probably a Leucostegia, but no indusium is to be 
detected in the many examples that I have examined ; it has long 
been confused with Leucostegia Hookeri, which it closely resembles 
in habit. 
GENUS LXL— GONIOPHLEBIUM. {Fresl.) 
{Gonia, angle ; phebes, veins — the veins forming angles.) 
Veins forming ample regular areoles, each with a simple or rarely 
forked free included veinlet, on which the sorus is terminal, often in 
the costal areoles only, but sometimes also in the second or even the 
third row, marginal veinlets free ; sori non-indusiate, globose or 
rarely oblong ; fronds pinnatifid or pinnate (simple in some species 
not Indian); rhizome wide-creeping, the stipe articulate oa the 
rhizome; pinn^ articulate with the rachis. 
